Giovanni Tarantino (MLitt, MA, PhD 2004, Habil Prof, F.R.Hist.S.) is Associate Professor in Early Modern History at the University of Florence, Honorary Research Associate of the School of Humanities at the University of Western Australia, and Co-Editor of the journals Cromohs: Cyber Review of Modern Historiography and Emotions: History, Culture, Society. He specialises in Early Modern Intellectual History and History of Emotions. He has contributed to major discipline-defining projects including The Oxford Handbook of English Prose, 1640‒1714 (2024); the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Religion (2021); The Routledge History Handbook of Emotions (2019); Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History 1500‒1900 (2019); A Cultural History of Emotions (2019); Early Modern Emotions: An Introduction (2017). His publications include Encounters at Sea: Paper, Objects and Sentiments in Motion Across the Mediterranean – with José María Pérez Fernández and Giorgio Riello (2020); Republicanism, Sinophilia and Historical Writing: Thomas Gordon (c.1691–1750) and his History of England (2012); Lo scrittoio di Anthony Collins (1676–1729): i libri e i tempi di un libero pensatore (2007); and Martin Clifford (1624-1677): Deismo e tolleranza nell’Inghilterra della Restaurazione (2000). He has co-edited: East and West Entangled, 17th-20th centuries (2024); Twelve Cities - One Sea: Early Modern Mediterannean Port Cities and Their Inhabitants (2023); Through Your Eyes: Debating Religious Alterities (16th-18th centuries) (2020); Feeling Exclusion: Religious Conflict, Exile and Emotions in Early Modern Europe (2019). He was selected as Hans Kohn Member in the School of Historical Studies at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, a Resident Fellow of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg ‘Dynamics in the History of Religions’ at Ruhr University Bochum (twice), a Research Fellow of Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, for which he also served as National Research Development Manager, and a Honorary Senior Research Fellow of The Centre for the History of European Discourses at The University of Queensland. From 2019 to 2023 he was the Chair of the COST Action People in Motion: Entangled Histories of Displacement across the Mediterranean (1492-1923).
